Author: Barbara Quarshie

Maria Valeryevna Butina (Russian: aри алеревна утина, sometimes known as Mariya Butina) is a Russian political activist and former entrepreneur who was convicted in 2018 of working as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the United States. She began working as an assistant for Aleksandr Torshin, a former member of the Federation Council, a…

Maria Butina and Paul Erickson’s relationship has been put to the test by several challenges. According to federal prosecutors, Butina, a 29-year-old Russian gun-rights activist, ensnared Erickson, a 56-year-old conservative political operative, in a “duplicitous relationship,” using him for cover and connections as she developed an influence operation to “advance the Russian Federation’s agenda.” Paul…

Paul Erickson is a Republican political operative, lawyer, and businessman from the United States. He’s worked on multiple Republican presidential campaigns. He has extensive ties to the National Rifle Association and Russian interests, and he was the focus of a federal investigation into Russian election meddling in the United States in 2017. Erickson pleaded guilty…

Today, in an astonishing clash with Nick Robinson, Vladimir Putin’s ex-spy propagandist told the BBC that Jewish Volodymyr Zelensky is a “Nazi” and that the conflict is “going to plan.” Maria Butina, convicted of operating as a foreign agent in the United States in 2018, told Radio 4’s Today Programme that Russia “is not bombing…

Artem Prymenko was born in 2006. Artyom was a multiple Ukrainian Sambo Championship winner according to his coach Mr Leonenko Prymenko earned a gold medal in the 88 kg weight class last year in Kherson and was selected for the Ukrainian national team to compete in the World Cup in the Netherlands. “Artem Prymenko was…

A Russian attack on Sumy is said to have killed one of Ukraine’s most promising young sambo fighters, a fighting sport loved by Vladimir Putin. Artyom Priymenko, 16, was claimed to have been slain together with his entire family when bombs exploded in the ravaged city. According to reports, they were among the 21 people…